KARACHI: Three people, including a truck driver, were gunned down in what appeared to be targeted attacks in different parts of the city, police said on Sunday.

A 30-year-old man, identified as Shabbir Hasan, was killed at his doorstep in Gulshan-i-Aka Khel near Chakar Hotel on the outskirts of the city on Sunday morning, the SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area police said.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

East-SSP Zubair Nazeer Shaikh said that unknown armed assailants emerged outside him home and called him. When he came out they opened fire and escaped. He suffered multiple bullet wounds and died on the spot.

He said that police got some clues about a possible motive and were working on it to unmask the killers.

The SSP said they were treating the murder as an act of targeted killing.

In Keamari, a 34-year-old truck driver was shot dead by unknown assailants.

Jackson SHO Babar Hameed said that Dawood Umer was sitting inside his truck at Ghas Bandar when armed motorcyclist arrived there, fired at him and rode away without looting any valuable.

He said that two bullets smashed the windowpane and pierced through the driver. He was taken to the Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

The SHO said the relatives believed he was killed by robbers, but circumstantial evidence suggested that the murder might have motivated by some other reasons. He said that the police were probing the incident.

In another incident, Asif Sattar, 40, was gunned down in Moosa Colony near Mohammadi Masjid late on Saturday night, the Gulberg police said.

The police said the reason behind killing and the identity of perpatrators were yet to be ascertained.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2023